Sorry, it seems the attached "error_log" file was silently removed by
gmail. It's pasted here:
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Client 14] Accepted from localhost (Domain)
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Job 86] Unloading...
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Job 87] Unloading...
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Job 88] Unloading...
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Job 89] Unloading...
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Job 90] Unloading...
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Job 91] Unloading...
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Job 92] Unloading...
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] Report: clients=1
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] Report: jobs=101
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] Report: jobs-active=7
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] Report: printers=1
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] Report: stringpool-string-count=1362
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] Report: stringpool-alloc-bytes=10440
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] Report: stringpool-total-bytes=23792
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Client 14] POST / HTTP/1.1
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] cupsdSetBusyState: newbusy="Active clients",
busy="Not busy"
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Client 14] No authentication data provided.
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Client 14] 2.0 CUPS-Get-Default 1
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] CUPS-Get-Default
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] Returning IPP successful-ok for
CUPS-Get-Default (no URI) from localhost
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] cupsdSetBusyState: newbusy="Not busy",
busy="Active clients"
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Client 14] POST /printers/PDF HTTP/1.1
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] cupsdSetBusyState: newbusy="Active clients",
busy="Not busy"
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Client 14] No authentication data provided.
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Client 14] 2.0 Create-Job 2
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] Create-Job ipp://localhost:631/printers/PDF
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] cupsdMarkDirty(---J-)
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] cupsdSetBusyState: newbusy="Active clients
and dirty files", busy="Active clients"
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] add_job: requesting-user-name="wx672"
I [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Job 102] Adding start banner page "none".
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] Discarding unused job-created event...
I [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Job 102] Queued on "PDF" by "wx672".
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] Returning IPP successful-ok for Create-Job
(ipp://localhost:631/printers/PDF) from localhost
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] cupsdSetBusyState: newbusy="Dirty files",
busy="Active clients and dirty files"
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Client 14] POST /printers/PDF HTTP/1.1
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] cupsdSetBusyState: newbusy="Active clients
and dirty files", busy="Dirty files"
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Client 14] No authentication data provided.
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Client 14] 2.0 Send-Document 3
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] Send-Document
ipp://localhost:631/printers/PDF
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] cupsdIsAuthorized:
requesting-user-name="wx672"
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Job 102] Auto-typing file...
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Job 102] Request file type is
application/postscript.
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] cupsdMarkDirty(---J-)
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] cupsdSetBusyState: newbusy="Active clients
and dirty files", busy="Active clients and dirty files"
I [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Job 102] File of type
application/postscript queued by "wx672".
I [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Job 102] Adding end banner page "none".
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] cupsdMarkDirty(---J-)
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] cupsdSetBusyState: newbusy="Active clients
and dirty files", busy="Active clients and dirty files"
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Job 102] time-at-processing=1371091482
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] cupsdMarkDirty(---J-)
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] cupsdSetBusyState: newbusy="Active clients
and dirty files", busy="Active clients and dirty files"
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] cupsdSetBusyState: newbusy="Active clients
and dirty files", busy="Active clients and dirty files"
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] Discarding unused printer-state-changed
event...
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Job 102] job-sheets=none,none
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Job 102] argv[0]="PDF"
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Job 102] argv[1]="102"
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Job 102] argv[2]="wx672"
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Job 102] argv[3]="(stdin)"
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Job 102] argv[4]="1"
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Job 102] argv[5]="finishings=3 number-up=1
job-uuid=urn:uuid:64ec9b0f-5ba6-3316-5624-4a4cd8472f1d
job-originating-host-name=localhost time-at-creation=1371091482
time-at-processing=1371091482"
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Job 102]
argv[6]="/var/spool/cups/d00102-001"
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Job 102]
envp[0]="CUPS_CACHEDIR=/var/cache/cups"
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Job 102]
envp[1]="CUPS_DATADIR=/usr/share/cups"
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Job 102]
envp[2]="CUPS_DOCROOT=/usr/share/cups/doc-root"
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Job 102]
envp[3]="CUPS_FONTPATH=/usr/share/cups/fonts"
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Job 102]
envp[4]="CUPS_REQUESTROOT=/var/spool/cups"
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Job 102]
envp[5]="CUPS_SERVERBIN=/usr/lib/cups"
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Job 102] envp[6]="CUPS_SERVERROOT=/etc/cups"
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Job 102]
envp[7]="CUPS_STATEDIR=/var/run/cups"
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Job 102] envp[8]="HOME=/var/spool/cups/tmp"
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Job 102]
envp[9]="PATH=/usr/lib/cups/filter:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin"
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Job 102] envp[10]="SERVER_ADMIN=root@debian"
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Job 102] envp[11]="SOFTWARE=CUPS/1.6.2"
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Job 102]
envp[12]="TMPDIR=/var/spool/cups/tmp"
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Job 102] envp[13]="TZ=Asia/Shanghai"
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Job 102] envp[14]="USER=root"
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Job 102] envp[15]="CUPS_MAX_MESSAGE=2047"
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Job 102]
envp[16]="CUPS_SERVER=/var/run/cups/cups.sock"
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Job 102]
envp[17]="CUPS_ENCRYPTION=IfRequested"
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Job 102] envp[18]="IPP_PORT=631"
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Job 102] envp[19]="CHARSET=utf-8"
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Job 102] envp[20]="LANG=en_US.UTF-8"
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Job 102]
envp[21]="PPD=/etc/cups/ppd/PDF.ppd"
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Job 102] envp[22]="RIP_MAX_CACHE=128m"
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Job 102]
envp[23]="CONTENT_TYPE=application/postscript"
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Job 102] envp[24]="DEVICE_URI=cups-pdf:/"
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Job 102] envp[25]="PRINTER_INFO=PDF"
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Job 102] envp[26]="PRINTER_LOCATION="
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Job 102] envp[27]="PRINTER=PDF"
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Job 102]
envp[28]="PRINTER_STATE_REASONS=none"
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Job 102] envp[29]="CUPS_FILETYPE=document"
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Job 102]
envp[30]="FINAL_CONTENT_TYPE=application/vnd.cups-postscript"
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Job 102] envp[31]="AUTH_I****"
I [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Job 102] Started filter
/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstopdf (PID 6692)
I [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Job 102] Started filter
/usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftopdf (PID 6693)
I [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Job 102] Started filter
/usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops (PID 6694)
I [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Job 102] Started backend
/usr/lib/cups/backend/cups-pdf (PID 6695)
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] Discarding unused job-state-changed event...
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] Returning IPP successful-ok for
Send-Document (ipp://localhost:631/printers/PDF) from localhost
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] cupsdSetBusyState: newbusy="Printing jobs
and dirty files", busy="Active clients and dirty files"
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Client 14] HTTP_WAITING Closing on EOF
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Client 14] Closing connection.
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] cupsdSetBusyState: newbusy="Printing jobs
and dirty files", busy="Printing jobs and dirty files"
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Job 102] pdftops - copying to temp print
file "/var/spool/cups/tmp/01a2651c6f2f2"
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Job 102] pstopdf 6 args: 102 wx672 (stdin)
1 finishings=3 number-up=1
job-uuid=urn:uuid:64ec9b0f-5ba6-3316-5624-4a4cd8472f1d
job-originating-host-name=localhost time-at-creation=1371091482
time-at-processing=1371091482 /var/spool/cups/d00102-001
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Job 102] PPD: /etc/cups/ppd/PDF.ppd
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Job 102] Resolution: 300
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Job 102] Page size: Letter
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Job 102] Width: 612, height: 792, absolute
margins: 0, 0, 612, 792
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Job 102] Relative margins: 0, 0, 0, 0
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Job 102] PPD options: -r300
-dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=612 -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=792
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Job 102] PostScript to be injected:
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:42 +0800] [Job 102] Running cat | /usr/bin/gs -q
-dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.3
-dAutoRotatePages=/None -dAutoFilterColorImages=false
-dNOPLATFONTS -dPARANOIDSAFER -dNOINTERPOLATE -sstdout=%stderr
-dColorImageFilter=/FlateEncode -dPDFSETTINGS=/printer
-dColorConversionStrategy=/LeaveColorUnchanged -dDoNumCopies
-r300 -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=612 -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=792 -sOutputFile=- -c
.setpdfwrite -f -
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:43 +0800] [Job 102] PID 6692
(/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstopdf) exited with no errors.
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:43 +0800] [Job 102] PID 6693
(/usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftopdf) exited with no errors.
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:43 +0800] [Job 102] Using image rendering resolution
300 dpi
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:43 +0800] [Job 102] Started filter gs (PID 6727)
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:43 +0800] [Job 102] Started filter pstops (PID 6728)
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:43 +0800] [Job 102] Page = 612x792; 0,0 to 612,792
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:43 +0800] [Job 102] slow_collate=0, slow_duplex=0,
slow_order=0
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:43 +0800] [Job 102] Before copy_comments -
%!PS-Adobe-3.0
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:43 +0800] [Job 102] %!PS-Adobe-3.0
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:43 +0800] [Job 102] %%BoundingBox: 0 0 612 792
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:43 +0800] [Job 102] %%Creator: GPL Ghostscript 905
(ps2write)
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:43 +0800] [Job 102] %%LanguageLevel: 2
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:43 +0800] [Job 102] %%CreationDate:
D:20130613104443+08'00'
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:43 +0800] [Job 102] %%Pages: 1
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:43 +0800] [Job 102] %%EndComments
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:43 +0800] [Job 102] Before copy_prolog - %%BeginProlog
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:43 +0800] [Job 102] PID 6727 (gs) exited with no
errors.
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:43 +0800] [Job 102] Before copy_setup - %%Page: 1 1
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:43 +0800] [Job 102] Before page loop - %%Page: 1 1
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:43 +0800] [Job 102] Copying page 1...
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:43 +0800] [Job 102] PAGE: 1 1
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:43 +0800] Discarding unused job-progress event...
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:43 +0800] [Job 102] pagew = 612.0, pagel = 792.0
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:43 +0800] [Job 102] bboxx = 0, bboxy = 0, bboxw = 612,
bboxl = 792
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:43 +0800] [Job 102] PageLeft = 0.0, PageRight = 612.0
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:43 +0800] [Job 102] PageTop = 792.0, PageBottom = 0.0
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:43 +0800] [Job 102] PageWidth = 612.0, PageLength =
792.0
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:43 +0800] [Job 102] Wrote 1 pages...
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:43 +0800] [Job 102] PID 6728 (pstops) exited with no
errors.
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:43 +0800] [Job 102] PID 6694
(/usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops) exited with no errors.
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:43 +0800] [Job 102] PID 6695
(/usr/lib/cups/backend/cups-pdf) exited with no errors.
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:43 +0800] [Job 102] time-at-completed=1371091483
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:43 +0800] Discarding unused job-completed event...
I [13/Jun/2013:10:44:43 +0800] [Job 102] Job completed.
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:43 +0800] cupsdMarkDirty(---J-)
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:43 +0800] cupsdSetBusyState: newbusy="Printing jobs
and dirty files", busy="Printing jobs and dirty files"
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:43 +0800] cupsdSetBusyState: newbusy="Printing jobs
and dirty files", busy="Printing jobs and dirty files"
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:43 +0800] Discarding unused printer-state-changed
event...
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:43 +0800] cupsdMarkDirty(---J-)
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:43 +0800] cupsdSetBusyState: newbusy="Printing jobs
and dirty files", busy="Printing jobs and dirty files"
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:43 +0800] cupsdMarkDirty(---J-)
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:43 +0800] cupsdSetBusyState: newbusy="Printing jobs
and dirty files", busy="Printing jobs and dirty files"
D [13/Jun/2013:10:44:44 +0800] [Job 102] Unloading...
I [13/Jun/2013:10:45:13 +0800] Saving job.cache...
D [13/Jun/2013:10:45:14 +0800] cupsdSetBusyState: newbusy="Not busy",
busy="Printing jobs and dirty files"
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 10:41 AM, 王晓林 <wx672s...@gmail.com> wrote:
> As root:
>
>
>> cupsctl --debug-logging
>>
>> echo '' > /var/log/cups/error_log
>>
>> Then print from emacs. Please attach the error_log to a mail to the bug.
>
>
> A freshly generated error_log file is attached within this email;
>
>
>> Also say what printer you are using and what PPD it uses. You may also
>> attach the /etc/cups/ppd/your_printer.ppd.
>
>
> I don't use physical printer. I just need CUPS to produce PDF outputs for
> me. In my /etc/cups/ppd/ directory there is only a PDF.ppd file which is
> attached within this email as well.
>
>
>> It seems that by default cups-ppd use postscript 2 level only (see
>> /usr/share/ppd/cups-pdf/CUPS-PDF.ppd)
>
>
> Could you try to replace LanguageLevel: "2" by LanguageLevel : "3"
>
>
> 1. I found there is a line "*LanguageLevel: "2" in
> /etc/cups/ppd/PDF.ppd. I change it to "3". And then
> 2. "M-x ps-print-buffer-with-face" within emacs. The output PDF is the
> same, nothing improved.
> 3. I did a "sudo /etc/init.d/cups restart", then did "M-x
> ps-print-buffer-with-face" again, and still saw nothing changed.
> 4. I changed /usr/share/ppd/cups-pdf/CUPS-PDF.ppd as Bastien
> instructed, "2" -> "3". Then again "M-x ps-print-buffer-with-face", still
> got the same.
> 5. Still the same after a "sudo /etc/init.d/cups restart".
>
> Thanks for helping!
>
>
